BATTLE CREEK, MI — A wrecker driver was seriously hurt when he was struck by a car that slid out of control on I-94 Tuesday night.

The driver suffered a serious leg injury.MLive file photo

At approximately 7:24 p.m. deputies from the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office were called to I-94 eastbound near the Helmer Road exit and found that a driver from Tigers Wrecker Service had been hit by a vehicle while he was attempting to remove another vehicle that had slid into the ditch, according to a news release from the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office.

The wrecker driver, a 48-year-old Battle Creek man, was standing next to his wrecker vehicle when he was struck. He suffered significant but non-life threatening injuries to his leg and was transported by Lifecare Ambulance to Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo,police said.

The 21-year-old Jackson woman driving the car that struck him was returning home from college in Chicago for the holiday weekend when she lost control of her vehicle on the icy roads. She and her female passenger had to be extricated from their car but were not injured in the crash.